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Night Driving to the Slags

August 23, 2008 on 10:25 pm | In Blogs, USIN's Blogs | No Comments

We left Cardiff around 20:30, heading up through Caerphilly, towards the Slags.

 

The Slags are a bunch of slag heaps, with some gentle, and not so gentle slopes leding into, and up them. They are approached from common land, following tacks with varying degrees of roughness.

We approached through the woods, and already it was dark. (Some may think it is mad to go off road in the dark, but, with good lights, and a sence of caution, it is doable! Best to go there is daylight first, so you can see how the ground lies.)

We took some gentle rises, stopping and checking the ground for routes, and to check nothing had been dumped there, which we would have been unaware of. This was an enjoyable series of climbs, ending in a few steep drops to bring us out of the slags, at the back end.

We circled back to the wooded entrance, finding a few small puddles to play in at the end.

We left the slags, and headed for the masts, along the fairly rutted track. All was going well, however, with the heavyrain we have had in this area lately, there were some bits of deep water.

We stopped and took some pictures, to show how deep it was. Spud’s SportTrak can be seen here, water upto the running boards!

 

After this we headed along the track, until a track heading up the hill to our left was navigatable. We headed up the hill, the terain consisting of grass over rock, so the ground was quite firm here, and the two sporttrak’s in the convoy toddled up without any incidents.

At teh top, we stoped for a natter, and to gather our bearings.

Heading down was mainly gentle slopes, with flat sectiosn, and this turned out to be gentle enough for MudBaby12 to have some practice in off-roading!.

 

We continued down to the main (err really?) road, and we headed towards the track that would head over more common ground towards the masts. We decided to explore a little, and headed down a track to the right. This was a fairly slow section, involving heavily rutted and rocky track, puntuated with tracks off the the left, with a steep drop to the right.

At this time ( approx. 00:40) we had a call to return home, due to a medical emergency. We dropped down the track, turned around, and headed to civilitation.

All turned out fine at home, arriving there around 01:30.

An enjoyable time was had, Night Off-Roading!